POLICE are hunting an “English-speaking” man in a hoodie accused of trying to snatch a young child in Ibiza.

The seven-year-old’s boy’s parents told detectives he picked the youngster up as he played football with friends and ran off with him in his arms before dumping him as his mum screamed at him to stop. The incident is said to have happened around 8pm on Tuesday in Vara del Rey, a well-known pedestrianised area in the centre of Ibiza Town. The man, who was wearing sunglasses and a top with a hood, ran around 100 feet between a travel agency called Viajes Ecuador and the Hard Rock Cafe, before putting the youngster back on the ground as his mum chased after him.